AI vs Laws

By Atreya Mathur Credit: DALL·E 2; text prompts (left to right): painting of a robot holding justice scales; painting of a robot-artist painting flowers; painting of a robot reading a law bookWhat does it take to be an artist in the 21st century? Can one create art with paint brushes, watercolors, or oil pastels? Or can one simply think art into

AI tools like DALL-E 2, Lensa AI, and Midjourney "can be told to create imagery in the style of a particular artist," notes this article in the Daily Dot. Yet "The current legal consensus, much to the chagrin of many artists, concludes that AI-generated art is in the public domain and therefore no...

A High-Resolution Image Synthesis Architecture: Latent Diffusion

Recently, a photographer whose camera was used by a monkey to take a selfie settled a two-year legal battle against an animal rights group about copyright over the image. The lower court had denied the monkey a copyright, but the parties decided to settle before facing the appeals court.

Registration of AI-assisted comic comes amid fierce online debate about AI art ethics.

An image generated through artificial intelligence lacked the "human authorship" necessary for protection

Dr. Steven Thaler has invented an AI that he believes have created original works, but the copyright office doesn't recognize non-human work

An image generated through artificial intelligence lacked the "human authorship" necessary for protection

No human authorship means no copyright protection.